Mircea Buga | |
Office: | Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family |
Primeminister: | Valeriu Streleț Gheorghe Brega (acting) |
Term Start: | 30 July 2015 |
Term End: | 20 January 2016 |
Predecessor: | Ruxanda Glavan |
Successor: | Stela Grigoraș |
Office1: | Minister of Health |
Primeminister1: | Chiril Gaburici Natalia Gherman (acting) |
Term Start1: | 18 February 2015 |
Term End1: | 30 July 2015 |
Predecessor1: | Andrei Usatîi |
Successor1: | Ruxanda Glavan |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1968 |
Birth Place: | Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
Profession: | Physician |
Alma Mater: | Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Moldova State University |
President1: | Nicolae Timofti |
President: | Nicolae Timofti |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Health |
Termstart2: | 20 July 2007 |
Termend2: | 26 August 2009 |
President2: | Vladimir Voronin |
Primeminister2: | Vasile Tarlev Zinaida Greceanîi |
Minister3: | Ion Ababii Larisa Catrinici |
Party: | European Social Democratic Party |
Mircea Buga (pronounced as /ro/; born 11 September 1968) is a Moldovan physician and politician.
He has a medical background and is a politician who was the Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family of the Republic of Moldova from 30 July 2015 to 20 January 2016. Before, in the period 18 February [1] 2015 to 30 July 2015 he was the Minister of Health of the Republic of Moldova, succeeding Andrei Usatîi (2011-2015). In the Strelets Government, he switched his place with Ruxanda Glavan, taking over the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family and ceding the Ministry of Health.Mircea Buga has also been the General Director of the National Health Insurance Company (since 2009), and by that time, he was Deputy Minister of Health (2007-2009).
Since 20 November 2022 he is the First Vice President of the European Social Democratic Party.
Mircea Buga is married and has two children.